Re: Detecting hostname

[Brian Long <brilong cisco com>]

On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 15:56 +0200, Marian Marinov wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm using kickstart files for more then 4 months now and I still have 
> one annoing problem. When the installations starts it is trying to find 
> the reverse address of the machine and freezes for 1-2 min.
> Is there a way to disable this with any boot option change in the initrd?

If you pass --hostname hostname.domainname in the network line, the
reverse lookup will not happen.

/Brian/

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